The Kansas City Royals have collapsed like a paper tent in a rainstorm, but the swoon hasn’t dulled my enthusiasm for the boys in blue.Sometimes, though, I have to steel myself. I try not to…

I used to listen to the radio getting ready for work. My cadre of NPR friends included Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep as hosts of Morning Edition and reporters Nina Totenberg on the Supreme Court,…

Many Kansas legislators take exception to what’s sent the state’s way by the federal government.They turned back federal compensation for expanded Medicaid coverage over the next three years, with the provision that the state would…

Not to sound suspicious, but the governor’s tax plan seems a tad self-serving — as in the 2016 election.Gov. Brownback maintains a reduction in income tax rates will benefit the state by freeing up money…

We’ve a handful of treasure hunters in this neck of the woods, some quite successful.Kirby Gregg, for example, has hunted coins with metal detectors from the early days of the devices, back when they weren’t…

After reading numerous accounts of the Moore, Okla., tornado in the New York Times and from reports on National Public Radio, you can hear the wonder in the reporters’ voices as to why “these people”…

No structure in the path of Monday’s mile-wide tornado in Moore, Okla., was left standing.To a one, every home, commercial and public building, was wrested from its mooring and flattened.Where the Plaza Towers Elementary School…

A guest editorial I have taught for 39 years in four school districts. I have seen a lot of changes in our education system, programs, and philosophies. I teach computer applications, keyboarding, yearbook, and health…

Fundraising to buy equipment for the new Allen County Regional Hospital is almost halfway to its $4.8 million goal.Last week’s gift of $15,000 by Great Southern Bank helped tip the scales over the $2 million…

The 2014 state budget is being held hostage by conspiracy theorists. You know the thinking. Don’t drink fluoridated water — it’s a communist plot to take over the world. That, at least, is so far-fetched…